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September
26, 2002
Secretary
of Energy Announces Seven Lawrence Award Winners
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of Energy Spencer
Abraham today named the seven winners of the E.O.
Lawrence Award. Each winner will receive a gold
medal, a citation and $25,000. The award is given
for outstanding contributions in the field of
atomic energy, which today has influenced many
fields of science such as environmental research,
materials science and nuclear medicine that were
in their infancy in 1960 when the first Lawrence
Award was given.
"We are all enriched by the contributions
these researchers have made ranging from understanding
the genetic code to measuring the expansion of
the universe itself," Secretary Abraham said.
The winners are:
C. Jeffrey Brinker, Sandia National Laboratories
and the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Claire M. Fraser, The Institute for Genomic Research,
Rockville, Md. Bruce T. Goodwin, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif. Keith O.
Hodgson, Stanford University and the Stanford
Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford, Calif.
Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Berkeley, Calif. Benjamin D. Santer, Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif.
Paul J. Turinsky, North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, N.C.
The Lawrence Award was established in 1959 to
honor the memory of the late Dr. Ernest Orlando
Lawrence who invented the cyclotron (a particle
accelerator) and after whom two major Energy Department
laboratories in Berkeley and Livermore, Calif.,
are named. The award is given in seven categories
for outstanding contributions in the field of
atomic energy, broadly defined. The Lawrence Awards
will be presented at a ceremony in Washington,
D.C., on October 28.
Brinker, a chemist, will receive the award in
the Materials Research category for his innovations
in sol-gel chemistry to create nanostructured
materials that have applications to energy, manufacturing,
defense and medicine. Brinker is a senior scientist
at Sandia Labs, professor of chemistry and chemical
and nuclear engineering at the University of New
Mexico and co-director of the University's Center
for Micro-Engineered Materials.
Fraser, a biologist, was honored in the Life Sciences
category for her contributions to genome analysis
technology, its extension to the understanding
of microbial diversity and its application to
human pathogens. She is president and director
of The Institute for Genomic Research.
Goodwin, a physicist, will receive the award in
the National Security category for his research
focusing on the complex dynamics of the fission
triggers of thermonuclear weapons. He is associate
director for Defense and Nuclear Technologies
at the Livermore Lab.
Hodgson, a chemist and structural biologist, was
honored in the Chemistry category for his contributions
to the development of synchrotron X-rays to the
investigation of biological structure and function.
Hodgson is a professor of chemistry at Stanford
University and director of SLAC's Stanford Synchrotron
Radiation Laboratory.
Perlmutter, an astrophysicist, will receive the
award in the Physics category for hiscontributions
to the discovery, through careful study of distant
supernovae, that the expansion of the Universe
is speeding up rather than slowing down. Perlmutter
is an astrophysicist in the physics division of
the Berkeley Lab.
Santer, a physicist, was honored in the Environmental
Science and Technology category for his contributions
to understanding the effects of human activities
on the Earth's climate. He is a physicist in the
Energy and Environment directorate of the Livermore
Lab.
Turinsky, a nuclear engineer, will receive the
award in the Nuclear Technology category for his
contributions to the fuel cycle management of
light water reactors that have significantly improved
the safety and economics of nuclear power. Turinsky
is technical director of North Carolina State
University's Electric Power Research Center and
head of the university's department of nuclear
engineering.
Additional information on the winners and their
work is available from their institutions' public
affairs offices or the Department of Energy's
press office at 202/586-5806.
Media Contact:
Number: PR-02-199
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